# The iPhone Duo should have been an iPad

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> **Original Source**: [The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1017447/iphone-duo-ipad-review-score-vergecast)
> **Author**: David Pierce (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Friday, October 23, 2026
> **Category**: INDUSTRY
> **Tags**: AI, The Verge AI, industry

## Executive Summary
We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10. But that wasn't always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such are the challenges of reviewing - and assessing - a big, new idea about the most popular smartphone in history.



## Full Coverage
On The Vergecast: Notes on an iPhone Duo review, a PHP scandal, Brendan Carr, and more

We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10 . But that wasn't always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such are the challenges of reviewing — and assessing — a big, new idea about the most popular smartphone in history

On this episode of The Vergecast , David and Nilay debate whether the Duo deserved the score it got, and try to work through how this device might change over time. Is the outer screen, as Daring Fireball's John Gruber suggested, the worst iPhone ever ? Would it be a better product if it started as an iPad rather than an iPhone? Would we feel differently about this thing if it were simply called the iPad Duo? It's easy to see how the Duo will improve over time, but will it ever be the phone for everyone?

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